Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1875, Page 4

Abgas 80 lambe OUR- NEIGHBORS. Inside Hisfiry .of the Northwestern - Soldiers’ Home at Mil- - waukee. A Singolar Indestry in the Cream City— Defunet Bogs, Cats, Ete., Turned “fo Prefit. Romantic Marriage of a Weatthy Young Man-.:Misery and Suicide. ‘Enthusiastic Reception of the Repul Tean State Ticket by the People. -S8cznday Gossip from Kenosha, Racine, Waukegan, and Elsewlhere, " WISCONSIN. ~ MILWAUKEE. SOMPTHIXG XEW ASOUY GUE SHOW SIGHT. From Our Oun Correspondent., MowavEes, July I0.—The principal ehow sight of this city is the National Soldiers’ Homs, governed by Gen. Edward W. Hincks, Command- ant and Treasurer, when he is at home, and by Capt. W, H. Lough, Secretary, when the General is ahsent. The Homs isa eorporation, snd 2 branch of several members of the same fumuly, namely, the Ceniral. near Dayton, O. ; the East- ern, near Augusts, Me. ; and the Southern, near Hampton, Va. The managers of thecorporation are the President of the Unized States, the Chief Justice of the United States, and the Secretary of War, ex officio ; and Maj.-Gen. B. R. Butler, President, Lowell, Maes,: Jlaj.-Geo. John H. Mastindale, First Vice-President, Rochester, N. Y.: Gov. Prederick Smyth, Second Vice-Presi- cent, Maochester, N. H.; the Hdp. Lewis B. Ganckel, Seerstary, Dayton, O.; Brig.-Gen. Jobn 8. Cavendsr, St. Louis, Mo.: the Houw. Hugh L. Bond, Baltimore, Md. ; Dr. Erastus B. Woledte, - this city ; Aaj.-Gen. -~ Tnomas O. Osborne, Clucago ; Maj.-Gen, James 8. Kegley, Pittabarg, Penn. To enstain this corporation,*Congress appropriates sume,of money 10 advance, besed on estimates yearly, or whenever required. The 1ast appropriation was $300,000, and is not exhanstod. The total cost of running the corporation ieshout 250,000 & year, but income from yarious 8JIICOS Fe- duces this amount considerably. The totsl net expenditures of .the Northwes:ern branch - sor the past fiscal year amounted to §109,830; that is to say, after all sources of income had. baen de- docted, the above amonunt stands s the sctual cost of ttus branch to the nation for ooe year. Of this amount, however, $36,651 reoresents ex- penditures for permanent improvementa and in- creased valus of property on hand,leav:ng 73,- 178 for what may bs rongh!y called sarsistence and maintenance expenditures. The buildings were donsted by the ladies of the State, with patriotic-fair-fever. fired, out of the funds produced by monster war fairs snd so forth,: snd thre ground by the poople of Wiscon- &in in Legislature assembled. This property. re- presenta s vaiueof at least haif s million dollars, withoub incambreace of any kiod. ) T °' TEE DARD-CASE&. i . ... These Homes are intended to afford a haven of refuge to the patrots whio fonght and bled to save whe Upion, in imitation of Greenwich Hos- pital in Eogisod, avd the Invalides in France. Thess patriots are not all whita-souled citizens. The Homss are but too- frequently competled to become mere - boarding-touses for the scam of cities, Thiais besunifully expressed ix she fol- lowing lines trom the last report issued regpect- fog the condition of the Northwestern Draneb, ‘which says, on page 6: - ‘Bat, unfortunstely, an undue proportlon of the in- 1mates who are recerved at tirls branen are of a clarac- ter not amenable to gentlesusson ; being of that class who were put into the service uuder the Operation of the conacription laws, wheu & large portion of the peo- ple, anxions to evadatoe service due from Liemselves toibe eountry, were more ezger to Sl thetr quotes than to recruif our srmiez; wher, thezefore, felony ‘was compounded and crime condoned, by megistrutes, an condifion that the criminal ehould enbs; snd drankards, lunatios, imbeciier, and_vagranis were, in vioiation of the laws of the United Statee, r=nt into the sy 0. staln its £uir fame, fmperil its ' saccess, pro- Jong fts stroggies, and dishicnor its faithful soldicrs when poor-houses and correstional ystittions wer emptiod §9to our ranks {0 il tho quotas of delinquaat towns aud counties, and the comsummated fraud was_called the work of patriotitm, ind mot un- frequently. ws rewarded with puliticol preferment. Munidral sathorities, being now as wilkme to escape 1row tiie burden of supporting their vagranta as thies. ‘were thim to use them t0 il tieir Guotas, ecruplo not £0 press them upun the Soidiers’ Home, Lnder the pre- tense that they were disabled in the service. Here, by their mieoonduct, vicious inchnations; snd Hithy Latits, thay o the honest beneficiary as they did the honest soldier in the atmy ; and when required to 1aLor wiey speedi.y desert, reek’ the hearest town, and resume the vagatond roie, s0.iciting alms, and wmeking pattful complaints af the Wsrdsbips.nd * tyranny " ex- swaug at the Home, until ey aro rewurned by some faithful magisirate to the Work-Louse or prison wh.re they properiy belong. Such imposlors sre, |y pre- scrptive rule, the most accompii ed grun:ilers. and 1o Lreserve order snd maintan discipiiue wnovag len 4t i necessary to exercise COCICIVE POWER, aud apply discriminating penallies. The above words shonid bs.read in every Home. They will serve 2s ballast to weigh against par patriotism. The last seo- teuce quoted is a delicste way of saying that our Homes for Patriot Soldiers are protty well filled w1th grimblers, drunkards, lunatics, {mbeclles, and vagrants, who have, for the good of their goule and the vindication of patriotism, to-be punished under the Articles of War which have have extended to these inatitations. ‘THE PHOFORTION OF HONEST CITIZESS among she inmates, howerer, is Iarge enough to kbl:de'n the mass with wholfloma examples of obedience, ciesnlimess, frupality, sovricty, aud industry. Theére adé 639 ton nt})" claiming the protection of tus Home. Oue officer and 171 meu are st the moment of wrinog ecaring wages outade, on farme, in factories, and 0. foutty, all over thé Uuited Staces. When tbey are’ ibeapacitated for work, or strike bad luck, tliey make thurr way Lome again. TAR BUILDINGE. There are about 1,0 men more on the books o! the Home to-dsy than this time last year. ‘The buildiug erecled for tae accommodation of these men1s 230 foet m leppth, eset and west, by 230 in width, north anag s.uth. Near byare the hoepatsl, the engine-hcus», the farm build- ings, the Comuwandaut’s reeidence, the officers’ quartors, dotting the erounds. The basewent of lhe'mnn buildiug is used for steam laaudry, = barber’s suoy, takery, and stororoows. On tho £rut loor (Le vistor fincs the Commandant's of- fice and ladies’ reception-room on_the left side oftbe ball, and Secreiary’s oftice nud goutlemen’s reception-roowmn ou theright. Taen cume Smok ing-rooms. hibrary, and readiag-10oms, vers well zrianged, which are regulariy used by the better class of inmates. The immense diuing-hall, wuh kitcbene aud ante-t0oms in the resr, cum- pl:)te :Ee Gesex t;'lon of this foor, Y n tue second-Hoor are the chapel or ct bail, lodge-room of the G. A R., &‘plun‘?:z;’; Rev. G. V. Barber) guariers, siesiing rooms, barber's, and wash-rocms. The sleeping-rooms are the ssme throughout -the buidinz, and ate pattern Of -oeatnezs and olcanlinsws. Lhe third flucr is Dearis:uil gisen over to sleep- ing-rooms, averaging ten teds in each. tho avar:- meuts bemng anuSuRlly airy. There are emoking and wash-rooms bers also. ‘The fourth flocr 1s given over to bowling-alley, bagatelle, billurds, and wash-rooms. ~ * Above all this3s the tower, with its numerous chambers and resiing-places. 1t is nearly 200 fee: high, and from 1t a mdcvifiesnt view is com- maoded of the smgulnriy-beautdul and Aiversi- fied country around. ¢ oI _The ho#pital hae gccommodations for200 pa- tieuts, and is noder the care of Surgeon Stearns. The farm cout+ins 400 acres, sud yields nearly ali the vegetables and most of the gigib raquired to fecd sbeinmates. Thusdepartmentisunderthe chargeof Ca‘z:;;‘nnm sod. !m‘pln{! onanaverage y OyeT s the summer. It is beautifuliy kept, fertile, aud in mauy rexpects may be pro- noupced & model farm? Biock oW cons af about 400 head of shsep, 30 -head: geod milk cows, 100 head of bogs, and 27 besd of -horses. of. thia ssasen wdl be fed to eat,’ { tor. the butcher's meat from the farm. HAPFY OR NOT HAPPY ? & The men thus provided with hostes onght to be bappy. Most of them are. Some, however, wonld grumble if ted on silver. The work is pot worth spealing of. Keeping tho house and paths clesn, and performing the du- tres of hosekeeping, is sll-the'men aro required {0 do, Everything eise ia paid for. - There is & printiog establisbment, boot factory, and various gnterprises of the kind on the property. and every man who works in theee, or on the farm, or in sewer digging, or improviog the grounds, receives regalar pav. As all ‘bave peueions in addition, some nr.‘;heu men aze becoming com- arstively well-to-do. % Relerczm bas been - mado to the bad charsc- ters. Iiisfair tosay that they sre kept under restraint, and that the average of arrests of mem- bers of the Homo is less than in an ordinary vil- lago of the same namber of iubsbitants. Alto- getbier, it mnst vo snic that the present adminie- tration of the Home is & wonderfully succesuful one, and that they have created a sort of terres- tral paradise where & bowling hell seemed at one time bat too likely. . THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICEET. 1 hear nothing but congratulations among the Republicans as to she ticket -nominated by the Repubiican_Btate Conveation Wednesday, of which a full report has been already published in Tae Teipese. 1 caonot flnd out that there is 2 vingle sbaky or doubtfal nomination. Every one scems to think that the right nails have been Bit on the besd this time. Tha ticket is a.happy combipation of all good qualities vecessary 1o & Republican victory this fall. - Wheraver the past. history of the Frospective candidato Bas become a barginister across bis political hield, — above all things, whera Senatorial predilectiona and past stroggies have distinguicited the pros- pecrive candidste.—such pre=sure has been brouzht to bear by his own eide of the house, or the votes of delépaties, as to necessitate re- tirement in favor of those against whom nothing whatever, except the usuahgmenities of election- L:me, can bo urged. Tbere i oot the shadow of doubt that Ludingron will bo indorsed by & lzrze eoction of the Reformers in preference to Tagior, or any other man who can be brooght out against him, - Taylor will, of course, receive the complimenc of & purely Bourbon nomination, vt he cannot unite the eicatents of the Dem- ocratic-Refcrm party sgainet such & man as Lud- ngion.. Theto are other mea on the ticket who are Bo etroog iz tbeir own districts that tbey will receive o large Reform vote. “Boss" Keyes Dewng re-siacted, will doubtless stand upon bia best behavior. - There are fow menso capsble and active as be; his great fanit was Lis maste:ful epirit, which has dcubtless been quieted down by the narrow es- cape he bhas had, 2and will be kept in future in due subjection. The State of Wiscoosin is strongly Republican to-dav, and it necds only good men and souad principles to brnng out their votes. NEWS TO MOST PEOPLE. Milwankes iong empioyed s geutloman, ata gtipend of 2:5 per mont, to temiove the dead cazs, dogs. hogs, and horses found on the streess. alieys., znd vscaut'lots. When off duty yoa ‘would m'stake tins ofiiciat for s powerfut detho- dist proacher, 1le dresses in black, and is cour- teous and refined to a degree. He manufactores sausages—fact. Finding 1t imposmble to con- ceal his doutls occupstion, ho ostensibiy roaign- ed thé public ottice, sed got a friend ap- pointed to the vecancy, but in roality be is still the represeniative of the city'a interests in the matter of biute corpses. TFhe other day hecame to the Healch Office, making & terrible complains that som3 rascal was inter- fenug with hus privileges, and.carrving off ail the fal” dogs, leaving him, the faitbinl servant of the city, only the lean. Curious'to learn what dufference it could maio whether the spimals were fat or Ieah Dr. Johpson—niio_is dezsly foud of poking Lis mose intd sayibing promiving fun—began making inquiries, snd tiaally discoverod that the carcasscs are 60id {0 8 factorv near the limits where refiued lard, a sort of clieap butter, snd fancs scented soaps, such a8 adorn_besuty's ‘toilette-tables, are manufac- 0Of all the abominations tbat aboundin in the way of stiuk-factones, this is de- 8 most horrible, yet the casks of lard sold are really of very good quahty, tesied by eye and moath, the butter 18 better than the average, and the. scented " soaps ' are 28 good as the high-priced qualities” tiat ar im- ported or brought from the East, stamped with wo!l-known nsmee. 1t is saxd that these goods are sent Esst toloading houses, and returned bere etamped with the mest famons branda, ‘thus even the most gbandoned felive and the most wretched cur contribua by their desth to tle sum of hunian hapriness. * n 1BAGICTOMANCE, " The telegraph hzs suppiied some particnlars of the mysterious deatn of Moses Burr Knee- land, tut nct all. Decozsed was & young mau, parioer of the firm of Fiint ¥ Kneelsnd, the potted son of - oue of our wealthlest and oldest families. Like most petted sons, he inclived to duesipnte. He was worth $160,090 o $150.000 in real estate and persousl proparty. He wag cn & spree goveral days laet wees, and on Saturday morniog - his dead- body was fourd in twe river Toen o women turved up with o marnsge-ceruficats, claiming t0 be tne dead maw’s wife. She is ome of the handsomest females of the town. A friend of the dezd man told me Knesland had seduced lier. 'The marriage was kept sceret beeauses the wife could no bo ackroaledged by deceasad’s fumily! She s ehut off frym tho ell%::r. hope of 3 repentant Vife that msrriage oncs held out, —forbidden even to use her husbund's neme. She wus never known a8 Ars. Koealand. The 2nd it is hoped in 3 fow years o sapply much of i ci scril . nohappy maa is said to have endured much re- morse aud mise:y on accouns of. his.family re- fusing to recognize his lawtul wife,—f sbe be 80. Being eaturated with alcobol, and ecarcely responsibje for his actions, eitber poison, tho bullet, or the stinking river, was sooner or later sure to be Kneeisad's lot. An inquest was com- weunced, bt hus been adjourned 1o order to ob- tain an snalysis of deceased's stomach. Appli- cation bas in the mesutime been made to the Probate Court by members of de- cossed’s family for lefters of adminis- tration of the estate. All" the viitue of Miiwaukoe is coacentrated witha resolve to save th:e family the so-called disgrace-of -this woman baing acknowledged as Burr Kneeland's wdow. and to prevent ler getting the'monay. A friend of the fsmily told me they are resoived fo fight the woman if it costs all the eAtate, and they are informed they cao 8o delay matiers for vesrs and years that tue widow wiil be glad to get off with & thousand dollars or-go. Hoxy much *vir- tue” and bow much *‘monoy” i8 in question here must be leit to the imagination of pgople who are informed. * A PLACID SORT OF SENSATION. Wesks ago, Prof. Stoiner began Aunounciog his theories of eastern mr-gurrents, and:the sci- entific importance of &n iuvestigation in the etherial regions. By-aou-by came the announce- meut that the Professor was going to' make an ascension—for the benefil of science—thst he would bw accompanied by Dt. Wight, Lonis Soa- lerin, and Georgo W. Peckham, focal scientists, and ' AL Regamey, & celobrated Parisian srtiat; that tho emall charge of G0 conts would ba msade for sdmission o tho inclosure from which the start would tako place in the interest of science, and beg- Ein: the peopte of Milwaukee and the State of 1ecousin to raliy around 1o the sacred support of science. Thoussnds of people came into town to see the ascension on the duy Edvertied—tlie 5th,—but the wind blew too hard, aud fally 20,000 citizena swore that Steiver was 3 mitk-and-water scientist and a fair-air sailor. The trip was post- poned tilt Weduesd: On that occasion, the. balloon ascended with ditliculry, rosd only 3,200 feet at startivg, tloated for ove hour and three~ quarters a distance of 27 miles southwest, and then came Jowu because thers was no more gis to keep. it up. Before leaving, Df. Wight, the heavigst maa of the party. had to get out be- caue the thing wouldn's rise. Fifty meun were bolding the nalloon down witn all thieir weight and strength, under the Loiief. that - their united muscle conld scarcely keop - it from &boollng | upwar the magic words “* Let go"” were titered. the | ifty men etaried back with the fesr of beinz drawn up Witk the impetuosity of tha -ascent ; and Gty paire of eyes looked swifcly heaven- | ward, sxpecting 10 catch s -laet glimpse of the party us thoy entered the.dommn of-the ‘stars and passed out of sight ;. but such was vot the caes. Tbe balloon was rocking peacefully at thair feel, and wouldn'y budge.12 inches. - S0,the cauec of science was not wmuch ad- wanced by the wip ; and it is proposed to muke anotber ascent- 8000, whan enough gas Wil be <aken -on. board to fnsure- a ‘long vovage. Dr. ‘Wight, being 6o heavy, will ba left oz of futnre. calcalamoos. Mi. Soulerin. Mr. Peckbam, aad M. Regamey wili con:titute tbe party, with Steinor for condnetor ; and, us they have every necessary justrawnent for taking very fall and interestinz. observations, some dats of use to eciedce mav bo.obtained, —which is #il they hope As they wero mero guests of Steiner vu - thio aecenslon 1o questioy, fhey bave no right to grumble 4t their vxteusive preparations having gone for noihicg ; nordo they. . . - THE WOMAN'S CENTENNIAL. At a meeting of Milwankee women, to take so- tion to commemorate the centeonial by the eree- tion of & monument. Or i gome other suitable way, the foillowing citizeoesscs were 8 ard commibtees 10 gather funds and ' mace sa- enis, both Tor the general object and for a musical festival : Lo NE: SUNDAY,>JULY7 11,7 1875.—TWE SLYE* PAGES. FHE CHICAGO® TRIBUNE: jam E. Cramer and J. F. Birchard; Fourth. Ward, Mesdames Rudorph Nunnemacher, Vo3 Boss, and An- neke ; Bouth Sde, Memlames Larkin, J, J, Hagermaz, 2541, F. Wolf ; 'Saventh Ward, Mesdares Carpen- McArthar, and _J. E. Garae ; Ninth ‘Ward, vetasaes Framkfurth and Schuengel. KENOSHA. ‘THE CROF3. special Corresponidencs of The Chizago Tribune. Kexosa, July 10.—A ride in the country the past week revesled the gratifying fact that all the crope were in & flue condition snd full of | promise for the coming harvest. .In the more remote parts of the county the wheat and barly have suffered to some extent from the ravages of the chinch-bugs, bit in thé immediate vicinity of the city tha crops have been uumolested. In Jocalitias whera lnst year only helf .a crop of “whest was raised, this season s fult crop prom- isea to rewasd the farmer's labor, 'The receat raios have given the corn a new atert, and “the prospecta are fair for & good yield. Barley, oats, flax, and buckwheat look well. . TEHE TSUAL MONOTONT in socioty-mattera was varied during the past weck by picnics, festivats, Fourth-of-July cele- brations, and three dancing-parties. The first of these, given Saturday evening, the 3d inst,, by Miss Minnie Martin, a her residence on Keposha street, . inaugurated the'series. Quite a number were present, and s general good time was. en- joged by zll. Mondsy. the 5:b, a party of fitty or sixty young people repaired to *‘Durkee's Grove™ tocelebrate the national bolidsy in a be- fitling manner, and concluded the day's enjoy- ment with a dance st the residencoof Mr. E. Bain, on Kenoshs streat. Weduesday evening, Miss Minuio Dosn gave & large party in the rooms- over her father's store. All the elice of the city wers present. and many strangers also were noticed -among tne gmests: Hev- erance & Wilhams’ band of Milwankee far- uished the music for the occasion, and tha large, airy; rooms presented a fine appearance when filled with the merry dsncers. Dancing com- menced at an early hour and cootinued untid tirod feet warned the parsicipants that * discre- tion was the better parcof valor.” Tbe party did not break up unul a late hour, sod thenit was with great reluctance that the dancera took » homeward march, Among those present were tho Misees Stryker, Bood, Runals, Overacre, Brande, Jilaun,” Doolittle, Lyman, Sholes, Hal- Jiday, Pettit, Robinson, Peirce, Wood, Vermilya; Mra. Qusrles. Mre. Bently, Mre.- Grant, Als. Oole, Mrs. Reid; Mrs. Hollister, 3Irs. Traesdell, Mre. Lewis, Mrs. Reynolda of Evanston, Mrs. Nelsom, Brs. Campoe!l of 8t Panl, and rs. Purkies. Conspicuons among the many hand- Soruely-dressod ladics were Mies Carrio Baio, in white with rose-colored t.immings; Misa Lizzie Grey, of Chicago, who wore an elegant pale-blus @1k’ elaboratoly Groameuted with pink roses; Mre. Dr: Hazleton, -in “white with blue trim- mings; Miss Cors Clary, in biack greusdine with 2 profasiou of red and yellow flowera for orna- ments; Miss Maggie Kiog, in pals-green silk, with wirite tarlstan overdrees looped with sj rave of flowets; Miss Minme Martin, in white tarla- tan; -and- Mrs. Lewis, in a biue ‘gros-grain- silk mads entratg, and profusely trimmed with tbe same. The.gentlemen preseut were Mesirs. Lyman, Pierce, Siosson, Pettit, Brown, Over- acre; Runale. Bentls, Quailes, Thiers, Grant, Trueedell, Bugwell, Wilise, Nowell, Hazlecon, Canfield, Lewls; Curry, Durkee, Hollistér, Fol- tows, Neleon, and Reid. Y E . x The festival given last Monday by the ladiesof St. Mark's Cstholic Chureh was & success finau- ciaily, 8 considerable sum of money being taken as the resuit of their labors. T'he races on the 5th at the Driving Park were largely attended considering tbo nuwmber of at- tractions elserhere, aboat 500 peoplo _being presens. The first race was won by \V. Mayc'a D), 5. Banditin throo straighs heats. The run- nibg race, purse §100, was won by W. Frencl's br. g Badger Boy.. Tha .2:50. raco, -parse S100, was_ won by W. Mayo'se. m. Lady Goy. The track was heavy, owing t0_the recent heavy fall of rain, and no very fast time was made. ‘The Danish Church Society give a fair, straw- Bexyy aud ice-cieam fesiival noxt Thursday atter- neon aad . evemng in the lecture roum of thew church. 4 The match game of base-ball came off, as advertised, last Monday, between the Balties ot Coicspo and the Grangers of ‘this city. The cateher of the Baltics unfortrnately had & fluger broken and was obliged to quit the field at.the eghth inuing. Tho Haltics abandoned the game % this pomms, the Bcore staading 8 to 5 in favor of the Grangers. . kR e RACINE. CBELRBRATING. Bvecial Correspondonca of The Chicaso Tribune,- TacrxE, Wis.; July 10.—The great event of the summer, where guupowder plays 8o important o part iu demonstiating the explosive patriosism of young America, and where on every cornor wo get o stunning reminder of the empires of Chins and Japsn, bas passed. It was to some extent spread over three days, culmiuating oo Monday, which wasa very told summer day; and 1s the weatlior<clerk this yoar' is. chary of giving two tine daya following cach otber, those who celebrated on the 4tu provod to bo the weatber-wisest. - On Monday all the shops and places of bLusiness wers - shut, and 8 rogular Loliday time was had. The old met ia their social reunione to talk over the day, and gli who honor it, and to contrast the glorious Fourth of fo-dsy with tne Fourths when they weroyoung. Young America generally came outsecond vest in the coiaparison, 80 prone are we in lifo's mathrer years to dxaw cousola- tion from * Lang Syoe.” The.young had their excarsions, festivals, and outdoor 8ports, with daacing here and there, which with the yotaries of Fathor Aiathew Hall in the Fourtk Ward (2 fine new brick bmlding in connection with 8. Patrick’s Church) commenced early iu the after- noon. As the edifice 18 as yet rooflesa, the fan was not kopt up aiter the raia began. TENs. - Milwaukee has sent two of her base-ball clubs to clean out the Iacine boys, but they ware badiy beaten. Wo were treated toa Fourth-of-July lecturs on Sunday ovening in the " Congregaticna! church oy the pastor, Mr. Sawin. He proteated with vigor against the feveriah hiurry of Ameri- can life. Tho speaker exposed the political bammer, and said he would blugh for his coun- try if Legislatures were in fact what they are supposed to be in theory,—‘‘the concentrated wisdom of the State.” He advised Lis hearers 10 pay more hoed to attending the primaries, for important -questions aro soun to be upon us; our schcol system i8 boidly assailed, and it bo- hooves all to be ready to act. ¥ ‘Ihe coruer-sione of & new German Catholic churelrin the Fourth Ward will be lad Suuday afiernoon, Bishop Henni, of Miiwaukee, officiat- ing. Itwillbo an inpoding alfair. Addresses will be made in German, but wo of the English tongue auticipate something rich from tho Rev. Father Mathew, of St. Patrics's Chwich, who 15 advertised as oua of the speakers. Our College Commencement exhibited pro- ficiency and scholarsbip in tha graduncing clase. Taoe valedictory was given wita foeling avd pow- er by Horace Li. Martmi. Racioe Collego bas ranked bigh us 8 Western centro of éducacion. Tlie Stat ticket 80_aunspiciously nomiusied is well roceived nere. The head of the ticket—our -Centennial Governor—aiwags stood well in the eetimation of our folks, : OccABIONAL. JLLINOIS. WAUKEGAN, Lo, AJwELY wess Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. ‘WAUKEGAN, July 10.—The past week was one of urusual sxfivity. Many stréogers arrived to spend the Fourth, who, on théir departurs, ex- presited themselves as highly ploastd ¥ bexuties of the Spring City. The national bolidey was celebrated in metropolitan gtyle. The grand gamds which took piace in the forenoon was pu;(:nz; -After the parade, many proceedéd to the Pablic 8quare, where the ot fhe” bt ! e exercises of fhe “Tho_ Evanaton Social Chub. beld e aton Social Club beld thei; picnic at Glen Flora Tast’ Tlmhdeav. '?‘Ilfa";;‘:i‘y" composing the Club numbered wame 300 ladies aud gentlemen. They arrivad oo a special traln av 10 8. m., and immediatelr repsired to the beautiful grove, where & Inige platrorm had been erected, upon which daucing was hearsily engaged - in, - Croquet-playing, quoiting, acd othier amnsements. were aigo emjoyed.: Dr..O. H. Mann, the President of the:Club, was pres- ent. as was aleo the Searetary,: Mr. D. B. Dewey, both of whom did much. to make it an enjoyable - season. The Glen Flora grounds bave bebame quice popular of late as a place of resort. Mr. and Mrs. J ;:ns_"ulxn. 1 § . . John Solomon left this cit terday for Californis, whither thes go o it relatives. *'Lhey wili i, ey provably bo abseat & month L. Willitms and . ¥if8. Lisve gone The Hon’ . to Coloragoon a vistk, They expact 1o return in *| about’two montha. s H ‘| “hir: ¥, Basouck, of Chicigd; 168 gasit st tha | loyely) Wankegan House. He is drinking water from our mineral gprings. L. lee 5. The Blue Stockings, of Chieago, are informed that they made & mistake when they caused the aopouncement to appear in seversl ,"thcng_o papers to the sffect that tho * Achletes ™ of thia biace were beaten by them on the 5tb ingt., &hxs" score being 20 to 0, It was not the ** Athletes 7 the Biue Stockings played, but merelya **scrub nine gotten up for the occaston. It 18 expectod that the * Grangers,” of Kenoss, will play the « Athletes ” of thiscity to-dsy. The question of organizing & military company in this place 18 baing agitated by many. e LAKE. . THE WATER QUESTION. * - ! Hardly have the TLake Trustees settled with their Hydé Park neighibors ‘on who is to appo'1t the engineera and others 'in their joiat Water- Works, when another problem is-given.them for solution. Althongh Mr. Purdy has been sp- pointed the Buperintendent of Water-Works in both towns, fhst gentleman has-dévoted so little time to Lake, and that littie only when hus pay-dsy isin Lake, that tho Lake Board found ic necessary to sppoint & Superintendent for themselves, Now the question is who'is Teally the Buperin- tendent. Purdy claims that nothiog csn be done without his orders, and if the lake residents want more pressure in case of & fire, thoy must honot all over Hydo Park for Mr. Purdy. byap- pointiog Mr. Foster, Superintendent for Lake, it was thought no moro’ ruuning sfter Purdy wonld be neceeedry, but it was a mistake. Even Foster must seo Purdy before the desired pres- sure is obtained. B Mr. Foster secma quite, put out sbout it, and in & commuuication to the Board reports tho Water-Works in & vary unsatisfactory condition. At all times Lako: requires s pressure of 85 pounds, and Foster saya tont it is- hardly ever 20 pounds, oftener 15, aud sometimes nothing at all It' is entirely usoless for 'firas, rc- ports the . Lake ~Suverintendent, and in case of a fire the Water-Works would be power- less to save property as they shoold. Ho cites » fow examples of the manner in which the en- ginoer attond to his orders, us follows ; * Over an hour I telegraphad to call the engineor at the Watec-Woris oud waa unable to get a reply. T pulled the fire-slarm box_ at 12 and thenob- then’ went to tained no pressure. I° tho Water-Works and was . told po. alarm Lad ~been given. On .my way_. back 1 tried several fire-alarm boxes, which I fonad in working condition. The slzrm - was given at midnight aud no response obtainud, Oa exam- ination I found valves clossd on Thiily-ninth street, Hyde Park cuttinig off our water supply, and also found several of our valves closed oo valves leadiy from State street. Ou Friday Tast I calied for prossure, and was- informed by the engiveer on duty that he would like to see Mr. Purdy fisst.” 3Ir. Foster thinks that if this continucs and canno bo changed. ihat Lake has 8 very large-sized elephant on its bands. By the following 16 will be o0 Lake is detor- mined to have’ GAS-WORKS :. Resolved, the rights usked for by Jobn B. Slierma, Jobn R. Hoxie, and others, {o eroct gas- works, e granted, and that un ordinanca be prepired therefor, and that the Prosident aud Cirk ba author- ieed to sign an sgréement with the partied. BURGLARS still continup to drop in every other night thronghout Lake, add ‘manaza to relieve thue guest'a mind of thought =5 to what he will do wish bis apers change. Enslewood seems to be their principal stamvitig-Srouad, and amoug the Iacest_involuntarv hosts may be meotioned Mr. E. R. Lewis, on Sixtieth street. Mrs. Clari also received a call, although the robbers got noth- ing. Monday, whilo every one was celebrating at Barmum Groves, two more honses ware entered and $30 catiied away. What is the boasted polica forca doing whila these marauders are prowling around is one of those thingsa fellow can never find out R Tha -Methodists of Englewood secm to have wade quite & aucoess out of . their novel straw- berrv festival, us they have. slready commenced buildiag their new church’ ou Stawart avenue, near Sixty-fourth stret. ‘The Trausit . Company,. finding tner =ccom- modaticns in. the Excliange: Builaiog rather paliry in comperison with toe amondt of busi- neas that 1s done; have commenced the bailding of a Iarge addition. : A= « PARK'RIDGE. NEWS OF THE WEEK. . The Aletta retarned home from Palatide with drooping spirits, baving.been badiy besten in the match game of Saturday, but were well traated and eutertained by their foss. The scoro stood 710 1in favor of the Palatinss, only six inrings, howaever, beiog played. . The Park Ridge Brasa Bend went up to Lake Zurich lnst Saturday with ‘s parsy of pleasure Beckers. Several ladiss decompanied tho pasty, and & good time was realized. E The camp-mieeting luis been & good advertise- met for the suburban towns on this road, espe- Gially for Park Ridge. The estonishment ex- pressed by many who passed the place atits ‘growth and pleasant appearance was apparent, and it will be a bard struggle for those interested aldrig this road to submit to the selliug of the camp-gronnds, thereby trausferrivg their inter- ests to the Laite Binff Camp-Meeting Association. But that is to be considered. - s Real catate is changing hands quits ravidly. Tho sale of twenty-five lots last week by Ira Brown ia to bé recorded. Every afternoon brain trom_Cbicaga brings moro or less purchasers. The demand for loss in'this suburb is on the io- oreese, and the faulc is Inid to Tme TnIsUNE. 'he interest that that paper has takenin the saburban towns hes brought them ioto notice, :mil the people along the road appreciato the act. ¢ Tho regular meeting of tho Trustees con- vened Tuesday evening. Trustses Joues, Robb, Broughton, Manatield, Teoant, and Hosman were present. A petiton from Dr. Dodge aud others, asking the construction of a sidewali from Dr. Dodge’s corner to the depot was re- ferrod to a commitiee. On motion, Trustsos Robt sod Brooghton were appointed to confer with the Town Commissioners in regard to the expediancy of graveling the Rand Eead through the corporation of Park Ridge, and making it o frea road. .Trustees liubb, Mansfield, and Broughton were sélected Lo look up plots aad place them oa racord. The Board ad- jourued till Ang. 3 at 8 o'¢lock p. m. The Fourth was celebrated on the Gth inst. The Alerts gTuyud on their own grounds, and beat themselves., A large number were out from the city, und the band discoursed patriotic mu- sic to the infinita delight of all. The depar:ures during tho past week were Dr. Dan Newcomb, to Fox River; Mrs. E. Tucker, to Rock Island. The arrivals were Mrs. Lyon and Miss Lane, of Chicago, guesta of Mr. Sweet. Mr. Sweet returned homo Friday morning, after an abssnce of three weaks, ‘There . will b scrvices at the M. E. Church this morning. Mr. Kauftan officiates. g OAK PARK, SERIOUS ACOIDENT. . A most distressing occurrenos heppened in the heurt of tbe town Frrday afternoon. Two ladies, Mrs. Coville, of Maywood, accompanied by a friend,—Mra, Shrefler, of Joliet,~wore out dri ing. Wheu opposite Mr. E. 0. Gale's, on Lake street, ‘a team, tlie driver of which was a dronk- en Qerman, ran into them, fiightening their horse, and he.ran, throwing Mrs, Coville ous to the ground, while the other lady caught between tie whosl and the buggy, end miracolonsly escaped with hor lfe, receiv- mg, however, some Bevere injunes. Dr. E, L. Cosh arrésted the rapid progress of the horse when it bad ran sbout Lwo blocks, and, extricating Mre. Shrefler trom her perilous posi- tion, he gave the ladies-all the asmisiance jbat the occasion demanded. He was the hero of the .| bour, and Mrs. Sbreiler is ndebted to bim for ber life, The Docsor aiready bears an eoviable reputation for populariiy, and his bravery, gal- lautry, sud kindnees Friday afternoon will win for him anew the biue ribbonof favor. Birs. -} Coville received Do severs iujuries, bub. was slightly bruised. Mrs. Sbrefler will doubtless recover from her sever but not spparently fatal -{ injuries. The drunken wrelch who was the author of alt the dwreful miachief was. arrested aud brought befure Mr. Dunlop, Justice uf ihe Peace. . His trial was short, sod the Justice fined him 325, Sotne brother Germaos paid his fine, Laking one of his horses as secunty, sod he was seut home. The event, happosing as it did in the cenire of the town, yas wituessed by a larga number of 'he citizens, avd sympathy for, the sufferers and indignation towards tlie careleas; unfeeling driy- er, was loudly expressed on every sids, Nattfe , M. Pocle, a young Iady whois & favonte mn the social horizcn of the . tows, left Wednesday for the East. She will be gone some two mouzbs. : _Amoog the delights of rustic life is the - old time sersoadc,—the touching of the hght guitar, and. the accompanying melody. of manly voices. During ihe, pass %eek. maidens have beed wakeued from sweot slamber to nide be- nind haif-clossd shutters, sod liaten to the fine musle of four i d excigim, ' How of *Good night, swgetheast,” died awsy, tomur mur 28 they peft them with Aowers, **Thanks.’ Miss Dell Whaples retuened Saturday fiom Lyons, ls., where she has been sojourning for several weeks. . Y Miss Ids Loring, of Lake Mills, Wis., is the guest of Mise Foster. . ) v A Iads promisent in tho social, snd particalar- 1y the musical, circles promisos for her friends & rich treat.. Sbe is expecting s ludy musician, of wonderful talent aod powers, to spend gome time with her duriog this mouth. Miss Dexy. from New York, is visiting Mr. and AMrs. Terry. p - OTHER SUBURBS. - : OAKLASD. . = - A concert was given in the Oakland Congrega- tional Chiarch by the Sabbatb-school last’Sun- day evening. . Lt waa a little improvemeat on the one given last epring, but there isa chance for There was not a8 large o further ihprovement, crowd.at the latter concert 2e there:was at the former_one, owing no doubt to the fact that toe first waa siich & failure, they probably thought that the presont ene would be of the sams cher- scter. Oneof the greatest fauita is that the «jnfants” do all the performing, the older onea not participating 1o the exercises at all. Aud agein, the - pieces are (oo muca of & ' nurdery- rhyme style," and sre not adapted for the occa- sion whersin they aré used. The wells of the new Johnson block are going up, and thére will soon be. auother block of stores ready. (or occupancs. A pew block is in courae of erection on Cottage Grove avenue, 0p- posite tho car-barne, 1t 18 also tumored that “Thirty-eighth stract is to bo:opened through to the lake. Witk all thess improvements, and oth- ers now contemplated by the speculsting fra- ternity, Oaklind will bo's young city of itself after while. o f “ A balicon ascension was ons of the prominént events of the past week. It was sent up from Fobe's drug-store at 9 o'clock last Tuesdsy evening, in charge of Prof. Fisk. It shot up Itke & meteor; and was visible for abont twenty minutes,, when it wsa.blown ovor:to the south- west, aud was soon lost sight of. Another ane i o the tapis, to take piace in a few days, under the obarge of the same gentlemen. . A pew barn boss, imported expressly from the Bloe Ieland avenue car-barns,. hiss come to take charge of the Cottage Grove bams: The grounds around the University have been cousigned to the care of a landscape gardener, who i8 cutting do¥n the grassand the tall wecds, and laying out new walks aud repairmg the driveway, by & The wallsof the First Baptist Church, on Thir- ty-firet streat and South Park aveuue, aro nearly op. The chapet is a1l under roof, aud the dome is pow being placed into_position, and in s few weelks a dedication will take place. Parties going through Hydo Park do not want to et into the habit of- jumping into the empty freight-cars when it rains, 28 its * little police- mea” are always on band, 1esdy to a:rest such offenders for vagranov and loating. It 18 ot vety often that they bave an opportuntty to make an arrest, and they musstake the advantage for onea, 80 88 to bava the houor of arresting & man when he tries to get under shelter wheu it raivs, ‘Tne big~ vac&nt wpot of ground on Oakwood avenns is being graded and brought down to a lovel with the boulevard. ~New flower-beds and pathways are to be laid ont, and the whole trans; formed into & miniature park. Weed & Thacker are comploting two fiue brick residences on Oskwood avenue. That sand-pile still obstructs the crossiug op- posize the drug-store, and will probably remamn there until it iy remaved by the elementi. : RIVERSIDR. ! i The grent number of visitors arriving at River- side.. have indocea Mr. Coryell to reopen the commodious hotel for their accommodation. A part of the bmilding has been closed for lack of patronage during the past eight months. fhe grading ot tho new nacrow-gango railrosd is comploted as far 8a the Town of Riverside. ‘Che new road ruas inila nor:k of “the decot of tho Chicago, Barkington & Quicy Railrond depot. 3r. Georgo Corsell, the proprietor of the River- eide ilotol, gave & select party Sagarday evening, which proved to be the great social event of the waek.. The entertainment was attended by many of the elite of Clucago, as well a3 Riverside and La Graoge, and proved onjo: ble throughout. BAERINGTON. July 3 and 5 passed off quietly, nothing occnr- ring in fhe ordinary way excopt thehoisting of the Star-Spaugled Banner. The Park Ridge Cornst Bard, on its return from Lake Zurich Saturday, discoursed some fine music from the depot-platform, ihich called ont-a large crowd of spectators. A large number of Chicagosns parsed through here Ssturday, on their way to Lake Zurich to spend a fow daya. . The -Colorado_potato-beetle has made its ap- pearance’ in_several localitics in thia vicioicy. Pans yreen, it is said, soon disposes of them. There was no preaching last Sabbath it any of the churches. A strawberry and ice-cream festival was held Wedneeday evening at the residence.of George . Otis, of Barrinzton Centre, for the bensefit of the Union Sabbato-school. A larze aitendance and & very enjoyable time ware the reault. 4 NORWOOD. Prof. Eberbart enterusined a company of friends on the 5th, among whom was a portion of the ** Alhanca Excarsion Party,” of Chicago, just returned from an extended tour to the Rocky Monntains. . No mora pleasant wav of do- h:lz hm:]br to the birthday of freedom could be anued. = ‘T'ho DBase-Ball Clab plaved tho Irving Park boys on the 3d, ‘and succeeded in bringing home the bail. 'The Rov. Mr: Everiard, of Tows, has been spending o few days in town visitiog hia friends. Many citizens are now enjoving their summer vacation. Mies Dufour 18 spending a short time with her friends in Milwaukeo. Mr. Holbrook's new flag-staff was put to its lepitimate use and proudly floated a flag on the day we celebrate. . BOGERS' PARK. Mr. John Murphy contemplates building a couple of residences adjoining his own, on Chi- cago avenue. The plans have been parfected, contracts ‘signed, and work will commence im- mediately,. ... The two fine stores owned respectively by Mesars. Ceporly-& Eivey and A. Jackson sre about completed. One of them, ic is under- stood, is to be fitted up s a first-class drug- store. Work on the new ohurch is slowly but surely progressing. . The new waiting-room in the depot, designed expressly for the ladies, has.been completed some days, but has not yet- been - thrown open. This ought to be attended to by the proper au- thoritiea. ONTROSE. Thirty dwellings' are to be erected st this suburb, to be comoleted by fall, The place has been at s standstill fgr the past year, but it is now in the hands of enterprising men, and they propese to make it the suburb of Chicago. There is nothing in the sccomplish- ing of the ijsct. a3 ull the trains of the Chi- cago & Northwestern Railroad, also tliose of hu:e Miwaukee & St. Paul, are obuged o stop ero. - E Several lots have recently been enld to per- sops who intend to build permanent homes, A new atore-building is erecting by Afr. Silverman near the croseiug. . PALATINE, = ‘Thé Board of Trustees held itd regular meet- iog Mondsy evening. A petition for the im- provement of Hale street was roceived and re- fered to the proper committee. ) T'ne petition of Witliam Hope and others fora highway was considered, and on motion uot uted. mM.m‘ A. H, 3iller et with & prinful accident while at the camp-ground last week. She alip- ped on the door-siecs and sprained her ancle. Bhe was brought home in a helpless atata. - LAEE VIEW. The Fallerton avenne peopla are rejoiced to bear that the Board of Pablic Worksare in a fair way to do something in regard to the weil-known conduit. /The swimming-school established by the boys of the neighborhood 1u-the pools col- lected 1 the unfinished excavations has ceswed to bo & novelty, aud they would be glad to see work on the big ditch takes its place. 'WEBTERX SPRINGS. * ‘This Western saburb is growing rapidly on the strength of its mineral waters, large quantities of which are- beiog sokd and ‘shipped daily 10 Chicago andother places.' A number of new butldings have been erecied, and mdny more are in proceas of erection. Our temperance socioty—280 strong—marched with flyiog baboers through - the principal streets of- the -village-Monday, in Monor of the anriveréary of our nationgl independence. The tetoperance feeling is_dmly growiog s:ronger in Lemont, and ere long the trafic in Liguor will be eutirely abolished. - . What's the difference -between the lower part of, the leg sad the Istewomet? One's shin aad bone and the other’s.beon and shbus, ~ ... - tomar- ~ THE FINE ARTS, ‘The Quincy -Shaw Pictures in Boston. A Veritable Paul Veronese-«-A New Disciple to Corots Descriptions of Works of Troyon, Roussean, and Millet, Sketeh of Millet—1 Samovar Sold in New York—Prizo for an Improve- ment in Plaster Casts. THE ATHEN/AUM EXHIBITION. ¢ THE CRITICS DIFPER. There is & remarkabla collection of French and Ttalian pictures now on exhibition st the Athe- neum in Boston, which has altracted the more attention because it has excited a quarrel among the art critics us pitter and savage as'the respect- ability of the Boston press will allow. Aud tol- erably bitter and savage it bas been insured to bo by the support of the defense by William Hunt and his followers, whose fault is not deli- cacy eithor on canvas or paper, though to do them juatico they also have their morael of oter- nal trath. These pictures are the property of 3E. QUINCY SHAW, a gentleman of fortuné, and son-in-law of the iate Mr, Agassiz, He'is now in Europe, and has allowed the pictures which usuaily haogin the parlors of hus houso at Jamaica Pond to oceapy for the timé three walls-of that room in the Boston AthenmEum, the romaining wall of which is monopelized by Kaulbach's great car- toon of “The Reformation.” They are de- seribed s 80 noble and impressive that, if not warth ‘s journey to the Esst expressly to see, they ara certamnly such that eversbody who ia going East for other reasons ought.to be told to go and see them.. Mr. Henry James, Jr., in & paper worth reading, * On Somo Pictures Lately Exhibited,” in the Galaxy for June, thus refers to them: +The Italian works ara s beautiful Cims da Conegliano, & small but interesting Tintoretto, and & superb Panl Veropege. This last pictare 18 8 treasure—a trigmph ; s trumph we meaz eapecially, for American empty-bandedness in .this line. 1t is a compieta and_admirable speci- men of the master; & broad, authentic, m- tarnished page from the book of Venetizn glory. THE FRENCHL PICTULES ARE A SERIES OF TROXONS AnD MILLETS, the former brilliant, but nut, to Jur mind, par- ticuia:1y mteresting ; the latter dusky: labored, concentrated, and of extreme interest.” - The following description of the principal pictare Is from Applelons’ Journal. A patnting by Puul Veroncse, which is pronounced 3 con-piete and admirable spicimen of the muster. " i8 on view. Toesubjectis the marriage of St. Cath. erine. A crimsop-Lrown tint colors ull the shadows, 2nd filters along the outlizies of tho personages of the painting, nniting, by this glowlug color of the dark Sak-leaf In swwumu-or the purpie Le:xk of summer, the splendors and rich hues of the picture into a gene- ril harmonious whole, ‘I ths midute cf the cinvus gty the Madonns, a true Veueiisn woman, whose lovk is mild, bat her features, ker nose, her iirs, and the contours of her throat aua her hazds, are drm and ale moat Greek in their perfaction of form, Folds of s rich uress form the bickground on wuich Teposes the Iatile Jesas, ot the texiure of a Leach oT a Fose is 0 beautifid as Sne buman flesh, and _certainly moLody but Titian, perbsps, ever puinted any more deligtsul to Icolz upon from s color and ki soft roundnees than the lovely limbs of this splendid child, The most elaborately-painted figare, and evidently the one over which the artist latcred moat, fa St. Catherine, 8 mature dume with reddish hair, s'ont and full-featured, painted from tha sazae model Veroneze used in_one of the principal women in the o of Cana.” ‘The hands of St. Cutherine 310 depicted with the perfect wodeiing »0 usually deiight- ful in the works of the old masters, who paitted fin. gers and finger-tipd, the knuckles, aad the captours of tue wrista, 2a carefully as it thoy formed the chuef in- terest of the picture, The saint s attired in & gressof stiff flowered brovade, with the skirt phited around thie waist, and & squsre, low-necked bodice, Lace and Jjewais decorate the figure of this stale’y Venetian, u goid coroget is on her hiead, and her features are com- and proud. Attha left eide of tha painting is the figare of an angel playing on a viol; onotuer sagel stands beside tho Virgin, and littie clierub entang ed in folds of Arapery LoveTs in the sir—one of those de- Hylstfal crestores in musty light and shade, but of coior fall enough to fade futo chaikiness every real ob- Jectseen nnder our own cool dayligat, AN BLOQUEST ACGOUNT OF THE "ITER PICTURES comes it an informal _privato letter, which, al- though not propared for publication, is publish~ ed by peruission : Pirst and foremost, there is a mgnificen? Troyon, a group of trees, caks spparently, witu infinite follage which does not rustie only Toere is black shadow under them, and ruu: snter, and a sultry sky behind. Taero is also another Troyon, a little thing in quite another style, two chub- by children running across & windy undera bine aml "This seems & mere sketch, but the other is, claborstely finished. S0 s a chorining Boussoun, representmg a sunset over a marali, with re fectod in lignt o all the crocks and pools ‘of water. Then there 13 @ very lov- able picture of pessants coming out of churcb, by & man whose name I never can recall, but it begins ‘with a B (Brion]. ‘Ti:ere ere aged people and rosy lit- tle girls, and tall elder oues with Howers shut in their Lrayer-boi ks, and bere alio 1 extrem patience in do- l‘fi‘l. Every poppy is distinct in the grasa by ths road- 6. Therears two or thres Daubignys and Lambinets, over waieh one would linger if there Were 0ot 80 much THERE IS AT LEAST ONE COROT more acceptable to most folks than those we usually s6e,—more commonplace, I should say. Aud 1 must digress to tell you about my miraculous conversivn to Corot —. Ihad been wopt to langh, with about half the Xnowing oues, at his 5.23 green, wooliy trees, and umoky skies, until, standing beforc some of them last April, it was suddenly revealed tome, s by a voice from heaven, tuat here and here only was ihe verita- ble atmosphere of spring; the mysterious, verual melancholy which is the trus correlaive of the sutum- nal cneer. . For the nextuix_weeka I suw Corot every- where, The tones of bis trees and slies hanted me a8 the rhymes of & naw poot “runin the bead.” To return lo the Qumcy Shaw pictures: Ho who will may gloat over an _suthentic Paul Veroneso, in which rather under-witted lookmg St. Catherine in curious brocade s being betothed to the infunt Jesus, I must hasten to THE WONDER OF THE WHOLE COLLECTION, TOE MILLETS. Strangs things they are,—five or six in all—but two of them are moat striking, Thess have both a singa- lar, dull, monotonous color. One 13 ber twilight, A shivering ol peamnt wrapped in' 8 ragged cloak stands under some leafless trees, and 100ks off on a heartless kipd of landscape. The world s brown, and tie sky is brown- iab-gray, with a streak of sickly yellow on the hori- zon, It has no beauty, of course, bt the sentiment i overpowering. The other ia » famoua one, * The Sow- er,” Here, oo, the atmiospLere i3 80 dusky and the color 8o faint, that I have a funcy it is meaxi to show that the peasant’s toll lasts longer than the daylight. The great imbruted-looking feliow trumps along, fing- ing out hus seed with on sction perfectly terzific, ‘Al Luis conscioustzess has evidently gone into his mus- clos, his drudgery is perfectly mechanical, but thers is & jower in it which containsa sickening suggesuon of the Commune. T G THE TYPICAL FRENCH PEABANT, Just a8 one sees him in the poetic firat purt of **The Tals of Two Clties,”—a crusliy outraged creaturs, in whom slumbess a ferocious animul in- the place of bis extinguisied soul. Ibave seen a wood-cut from one of Millet's pictures, representing tree women glean- ing, which gives me exactly the same feeling. The Art journal, as mentioned last weelk, con- tains an aquafoit of this pictara of **The Glean- rs,” which fully expresses tho impression which is thus descrived. Some particulars reipecting the life of anart- ist who bas excited so much intcrest wll not be out of place. JEAX FRANCOLS MILLET 'was born in 1815, and at the time of his death, on the 20th of last January, was in lus sixtieth year. He was the sou of & shepherd, and in bis boyhood worked in the fielda; and it wasin pictures relating to ant life that he won bis great reputation. He was fally of middia ago when he turned to these sabjects, ln_vlng previously been buslly eogaged in _panit- g victares popular in the Fiench market, prncioally nudo Sigurcs, for the sup- port of bis large family,—»lich numbered four~ teen childcen. He lived and died at Bacvizon, & viilage on the edge of tno Forest of Fontaine- bleav, aod belonged to & coterie of artists whiich incladed in its numoers Diaz, Jules Dapro, Jacque, Th. Ronsseat, etc. Starting aa & pupil of Mouchel and, Paul Delaroche, he exhibited his figst work 10_ihe Salon of 1844, took his dret. medal 1n 1858, and finauly received the Cross of the Legion of Houor in 1863." It was in 184 thathe seot to the Salon three pictures: “A Peasant-Womsn,” “The Gomers,” and “7The . Biwnders,” and from time uotil his desth ho purued the style which made hita famoas. **The Gleaners was exnibitedin }.357." His works, litersl finm:n:;auum‘gi the borions French peadsnt-life, out mot un-wuplum-qflml. £od & remarkahle responae in the minds of intellectea:, = A hemag, and poetic obrersers, and e, serien of Goorrcs, 8ad have been likened p3 Wulliam Huat, of Boston, was i and former'y owned some of hi‘s m)‘)llnrm by mave unbppily burut in tae g:::',",';‘,f are some works i e Dhiladelphin—oua | 0 PrITao hady A NOTED AXD VALUADLE ONE, L'sNoRIvy gy BOIR. purchased in Paris for 5,000 fran soes a grest: piowed teld, mith & gf."-' el &cmswhat misty atmosphere, & Littls em‘i?-' the distance, and, just along the horizop 2.2 vor glesm of light. 1a the tiddie cf ey stand two peasants,~—na mao and & woman, fay for & momeut snspend tneir Lavor and beny g heads teverentiahy at the suund of the g bell. “Tho linea of toil 8re stamped po et faces of the two, and upoo their . I colorless sky, tho wids-apceading. dan sl which they have been mmnuhihgmlrmt{nlnm monotonous aud dreary, tell the talecf ths tiog aut's life; tho gleam of hght over the church, and the expreesion of roligions fa. the workers as they Lis:on to.the angeing sisd the cfilaom of the scene, and indicata the which maties those dark 1378 of for] sy Laber and . patience,—that waa whag Wil let saw beforo him; over these and their asaociations his gadness brooded, out of thess bis fioe spirit and his extraomii skill of hand_estracted & beauty £0 crofpy that to see it unmoved is impoesible. which can look complacently at pictarss *'The Roll-Call,” or **The Death of Nelnsp “The Death of Gen, Walle,” of such-liks hergs playa. may drob tears at_Miilet's solemn, almeg unintentional patiios. This fine descripioy & from Lady é‘ou%cksy Tho number of i pictures prodace -Alflet was com, natiyp small, hardiy more than threa a year, 5 W. M. R Froxeg, 0DDS AND ENDS, Hsmerton’s Por{folio ig potlished by I, W Boaton, 706 Broadway, New York, A mnisprisj occurred last week. Among the articles sold in_the Orisafal s Eecausa there is 10 breeze, of Iection at Chaton Hall, New York, recently, iy following was observable: Silver-plated Samg. var from Zloscow, $30, 1o Fiorence, Preston Powess is very busy o baif a dozen portrait busts. Mr. Bail has eon. pleted bis statue of Webater, and is resting froy Ius labors while it is being put into brona - A $1,000 portrait of Bishop Whipple, of M. nesots, br Daniel Hustingon, of has boen presented to Seabury Divinity at Feribault. The fignre 18 of tlree-fouhy length. in Episcogal rabes, and halding a rollg the hand. The sals in Paris of Fortany's colloction broughi $165,000. il pano-Moresque vase of porcelaw, in metalie ustre colors, for 30,060 fancs, or more thu M 55,000 This vase Fortany had procured wik infimite pains and irounlc in Gransds, sod be valued it very highly. 3 The word vignette is from the Frenth wom “wigne,” & vice, aud was- origionally nselly desiynate draw.nes incloged in a border of lesny or foliage. Its proper application now is toay kind of a woed-cnt, coprer-plato photograch. @ otherpicture nozinclosed witiun adednto bor in printing t1s vsed of avy large ornamenta the lexd of & pege, acd of head ard tail-piscs Mz J. Carroll Backwitd, & bard-wosking ef prowkeiug yuang actist from thin eity; hastx the past year boen in the studio of Frox. Dura, at Peris. aud by his perseverance and escellangy of work gaied sdmssion to the Goveme ment Art Scnool. Dunog his summer vacatim be ia now diligently at work iu Verice, Lay visited Milan, Veross, aud.Dresden, snd 3 soon return to Parts to resume hiy work inta Coneours 1o antumn and spend tho witter, Hs 13 stadent of fine promise, and bids farto flect credic opun Lis nauive city. z COROT. Corot's collected vorks have been on exhilh tien in the Fine Arts Pulice in Paris. A lett to the Boston Gazlle gives theso particalay about this artist, whose works are now £ ime mensely valuable: -+ ° > You cannot imagine how interdeting, Dow disieart. ening, and &t toe same tme how consouag, s thy exbicition of he lutors of the forty saisiess yemsol this valiant ars:, w£o Was 60 yeirs oid befure bt kuow wiat fame wes or epjoved tha gratifiaroadd thinking that bis art gave him ik roof which covered him oud the Sread which snpported bim. Whssa lesson to tho dispitied ! What an cucouisgemmtte the earnest worker! He was ) jears betoy fortune came; but when it did come, in wht avalanches it felll He earned between his & year and bie death 510,000, He gava swy all of them except $3.,000, which were discovered aflat hin dea:h, Tiirty thoussnd dcliars of this mouey waw tound in his seuretary; all of iz was stul scattered & the latters in which Be'had recelved it. Thirty Lo sand doll.rs wera brocght by a utock-brok:r, who s that saven or eight yearsago Corol had broaght bim this mouey to invest for him. He bad aked Corel whathe wishad Lought ; the arust kad replied, I make inquiries and lef you know,” and bsd nemr mentloned tha +ubject agiin. Corot's family Lavesaid; i*He leaves very little money when ous cansiders thab ho Bad seceivod $100.000 durlug the st ymurver bs 14fe; but 03 uok one of us ever ezpected thas he earn one cent with his brushes, all monuy we 8d over and above his patrimony we look ujon as a windfL? COLLEGTIONS OF CAST, The Boston Adcertiser Lns the following m plaster casts: There are some people who affect to look upm s plaster cast as something aimost valueless, tectus i fanota work of art, To perscus of this clasa the @ penditure in casta, by th Trustoas of our Museam, of the sum realized at the kalo of the Sumner pictars, will undoubtediy sppear to te very liitlastortof wath This o) inlon, however, 8 not ahared by the ms, of those who are competent o judge of wuch matiesy & fact which is eagily deducibie from tne eJorts eim- whero making to briug together such collections. Tho question f the preservation and clecing casts las frequer 1l beenagizsted, It has bean o~ pescd by some du paint them withs oil-color, aud i means of preservatiyn has indeed Leen often resoctsd to. . But 1t 1a srgued, and with justice, that tals pro- ceeding is deciced'y barbarous and !nr.isile, af the sharness and besuty of thecst most ne suger underit, It may beimagined, thercfore, (s there waa a very loud outburst of indignation id ce- tain quartars when, about two years 2o, a large nu ber of the casts in the Beriin collsction were painisd by order of Frof. Bolticker, Tue controzamy whid followed, and which was greatly intensifiod by the = srrangement of the coliection npon a prinzipls e demned by most_archzologists, hus, however, 1 3 very desirable result. The Prurlan Gove > pointed s commission, whuta dnty it was b B Veatigate into the existing mcaus of prase ing nnd clesning casts, This commission, o0 gisting of well-known men of science sad o art, gave it 2a fts verdict that none of the procemesst present known snswered the purpose, and therclay ‘proposed to the Government to oar prizes—(1) forte Qiscovery of & method of rreparing casts scasioex able thom to stand repeated waahing without chaofy in their surface or color ; and (2 for the dirverydl & new material which will answer all the purjees ‘plaster of Paris, but will Dot need s special prepsas tion to allow the casts made from it t0 be cléan. The Prus.isu Government has acte] upon tuis s geation, and hun offered the sum of 3,000 masks (sboi8 $7:0) for the eolution of the first proviem, snd of 18- 009 marks (§2,50,) for the solution of the second. TH condition which must be aghered to in competind £ the prizes ara speclied In a circular issaed by {30 Prossian Minltry of Education, on Lo 6th of JassTe g'n.u u)smpefidun 1n open to tho world, and cioses Dt 1, 1376, L REST. A tirod tramp. sad, dust-begrimed, and em%, From all the weary leagucs ho'd ravaled o'sfy - Bat down to reat beneath 8 leafy trea, . Whose stieltering branches formed a enopy That hid the sun ; soon full to sloe, An soft as daylight into dark duth eresp, o nlept till Morning's gorgeous King his Eustern throue; thep, awakening He Lounded (o hus feet, aud saug this praise Of Norpheus, King of Sluep, aud shady waysy. The tized limbs, tzat overnight were sare, Falt sizong and supple, as thuy never feit befors. Jaxre Lav) —_— A Chance Nugget. Grass Valley (Caty Onion, Yesterday afternoon Albert Bbepherd, who : sides meer Walsh streor, in the wastdra’ Dbighest patt of the town, made & nice Tithe ol He wzs walking oat of his lot, the rear end tuereof, belo 1o a medizative mo2 he cast his eyes towards the ground. o o in tho patbway giittared, and that somethisg old. He stooped down sad picked up tha t was a chunk that weiglied inthe mgh‘mfl‘ of £373, and_a8 a svecimen is worth mote A, that sum. Shepbord bag walked cverths: opect men a thonsand times, but had alwsss fore held bis hezd up. ' Look at the are walking upon, young 1o L] = il Aicata R e MILLINERY GOODS. 100 Shede and other styles o Ladies’ Straw Hats redu_ced from $2, $1.60 and $1 to oo Other goods in Millinery D¢ partment reduced in like Pres portion. AlsohavemadeswoeE ing reductions in prices of Par asols and Fans. . HOTCHKIN, PALMER &% 137 and 139. State-sk B ‘A maguificent Ein 15